Since my crappy old camera officially died and my amazing coworkers have been taking me on weekly adventures to different parts Seoul, I decided to buy a new camera yesterday. I had an entire conversation with the man who worked in the store, even though we only understood about one word from each sentence the other said. He was speaking only Korean and I, obviously, was speaking only English but he still managed to help me get a good deal!
I always enjoy language barriers and I’m not sure why. As much as I love languages, there’s something fun to me about trying to communicate without words. Although the people in the stores are probably annoyed by it, I think it’s fun to have entire conversations in expressive faces and hand gestures.
I even love when our class textbooks say something strange because whoever wrote them isn't actually a native speaker. They make me laugh every day. While I would most likely describe the word barbecue as “grilling food outside,” our book today explained it with this example: “Let’s have a dinner of meat in the garden tomorrow.”
It made me laugh. And crave a dinner of meat.
o.m.g. I could really go for a dinner of meat right now, shanny.
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